Wonderscope Children's Museum - Focus Fieldtrip Topics

City of Wonder -- What is in a city? What makes a city? And who makes a city? This exhibit gives children the opportunity to role-play adult activities: shop for your family’s dinner or be the grocery clerk in this kid-sized version of a grocery store. Or make a pretend pizza, visit the bank’s drive through, and check out the office every bank president wants: a tree house! A group Box City Mural by the children completes the experience!

RACEWAYS – Simple, but challenging games that are experiments. Basic principles of objects in motion were formulated by Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo. You’ll have a ball playing with gravity, energy and motion. And building your own versions (plastic track and marbles) that go back to your classroom to extend the experience!

LEGO Ocean Adventure – "The sea is our common heritage and its care must be our common responsibility." -- Dr. Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer

The LEGO Ocean Adventure exhibit was developed in partnership between The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the LEGO Company and was acquired as a permanent exhibit by Wonderscope in 2007.

The focus field trip portion of your trip includes the following choices (you pre-select):
OCEAN SOS: Chat with a Pollution Investigator
Learn about items we throw away every day and how they effect the ocean and the animals that live there. Make a conservation-based undersea mural out of recycled materials. (for grades 1-3)

Reef Residents
Learn about the elusive material called coral and the diverse ecosystem of the coral reef. Make a coral reef mural and create your own underwater creature. (for grades 1-3)

Seashell Secrets
Learn about the animals that live inside the beautiful shells that so many of us collect. Create an Undersea mural with shells and create your own underwater creature. (for grades PreK-3)

A Whale of a Tale
Let’s see how much you already know about these beautiful creatures, whales. AND discover some new fun facts, too! Create a whale of a mural and sing with the whales. (for grades PreK-3)